Suzette Llewellyn is an English actress, known for her roles as Sister Cheryl Patching on ''
Surgical Spirit'',
Estelle Vere on ''
Doctors
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** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
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'' and
Sheree Trueman
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on ''
EastEnders
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'' from 2019 to 2021.
During the 2020 lock down she co edited Still Breathing, 100 Black Voices on Racism, 100 Ways to Change the Narrative with fellow actor
Suzanne Packer
Suzanne Packer (born Suzanne Jackson on 26 November 1962) is a Welsh actress, known for playing the role of Tess Bateman in the BBC medical drama ''Casualty'' from September 2003 to August 2015. She later returned to the series as a guest for th ...
. The book was published by
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in 2021.
Career
Llewellyn studied acting at
LAMDA
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from 1980 to 1983. She made her professional stage debut as Viola in ''
Twelfth Night
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'' with Northumberland Touring Company in 1983. Her television debut was as Sharon in the 1984 television film ''Stars of the Roller State Disco''. She then made guest appearances in television series such as ''Black Silk'', ''
Rockliffe'', ''
The New Statesman
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'', ''
Screen One
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'' and ''
Runaway Bay''. From 1989 to 1995, Llewellyn starred in the
ITV
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ITV
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** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
sitcom ''
Surgical Spirit'' as Sister Cheryl Patching.
In 1991 she co-founded
BiBi Crew BiBi Crew, founded in 1991, was the first British comedy troupe to consist entirely of Black actresses. Their work focuses on the Black British experience.
History
In 1991, Joanne Campbell, Judith Jacob, Janet Kay, Suzette Llewellyn, Josephine M ...
, Britain's first theatre comedy troupe made up entirely of Black women.
From 2013 to 2017, Llewellyn played the recurring role of Nina Morrison in the ITV soap opera ''
Coronation Street
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Origi ...
''.
From 2014 to 2015, Llewellyn starred in the
CBBC
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series ''
Rocket's Island
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'', as Wendy Sparks. In 2016, she portrayed the role of
Margaret Smith Margaret Smith or Maggie Smith may refer to:
People
*Margaret Smith Court, known as Margaret Court (born 1942), Australian tennis player
*Margaret A. Smith, superintendent of Volusia County Schools
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in the
Channel 4
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soap opera ''
Hollyoaks
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'' for six episodes. Then in 2017, she played
Doria Ragland
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Early life
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in the
Channel 4
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comedy series ''
The Windsors
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''. In 2018, she began appearing in the
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. Later that year, she began portraying the regular role of
''.